It's the end of the month...which means that my next month's creations for the earrings-of-the-month club gals goes in the mail today.
Having won a recipe contest
through We Olive, I roped some friends into joining me and my family at the
Paso Robles Olive Festival, an all-day celebration of all things olives. We
sipped olive oils, bent olive branches into crowns, spooned olive jam onto
olive oil crisps, slathered olive oil lotion onto sun-baked skin, and cooled
off with olive oil ice cream – topped with balsamic vinegar. What we didn’t do,
that I thought we would: taste olives. You know, the actual fruit. I envisioned
tubs of green, almond-shaped cerignola;
slightly wrinkled, almost midnight gaeta
olives; and the green picholine to
the purplish liguria all swimming in
their pools of delicious brine.
So, while dreaming of olives, I
decided to make that the theme for this month’s Earrings-of-the-Month
selection: Olives!
The earrings are made with
eco-friendly olive-shaped acai seeds handwired with sterling silver, lava beads, and hematite.
Here’s what my vendor writes about their acai beads: “Our beads are made in our
small workshop in South America. The workshop is clean and workers receive a
fair wage so everybody's happy! Plus collecting and selling seeds creates
income for the indigenous people. Without this income, the rainforest is often
destroyed to provide for a more agrarian society.”
